Dramatic sketches of the new Poor Law, as administered by guardians, or, reality and fiction identified / By a surgeon [E.S.D. Groves].

  • Surgeon.
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dramatic sketches of the new Poor Law, as administered by guardians, or, reality and fiction identified / By a surgeon [E.S.D. Groves]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1A Dom. (to Relieving Officer.) Relieving Officer,— ’tis our decree That you directly pay the Doctor’s fee* We will not suffer such presumption here— Who dares with our arrangements interfere, We’ll mulct in penalties the most severe ! ! [Exit Relieving Officer. * The Relieving Officer called upon the Doctor and offered him the money, but the latter indignantly refused to accept it, thereby receiving nothing whatever for his attendance upon the old man, although he saw him every day for eight days.— See the Appendix.